Forbidden Knowledge

Join Lee Russell, Daniel Harper and Paul Remaley as they discuss films they love, hate, or perhaps are on the fence about, usually while drinking. New episode uploaded to Youtube and uploaded here every Monday, unless real life gets in the way. Questions and comments can be emailed here: houglyreviews@gmail.com

Lee is back for Intermission #21. Originally he was going to review a couple of horror movies that everyone else and their dead relatives have already seen and talked about, but thinking better of it, instead he decided to take a look at upcoming horror releases for 2018, and give his off-the-cuff reactions to them. Then he ends off sorting through his horror film collection and giving 12 humble suggestions for double feature watches for this Halloween night.

Lee and Paul are on board to provide the first bit of bonus content for October 2017. They take a look at the bloody slasher film "Nightmare" (AKA "Nightmares in a Damaged Brain") from 1981. Does this video nasty still have an impact? How does it rate alongside similiar films like "Maniac" and "Don't Go into the House"? Is it a piece of shit like Tom Savini claims, whenever he's denying his involement on the film? All of this and slightly more!

No regular episode this week, but Lee managed to work in an Intermission episode. What's he been doing, what's coming up on the podcast next, and what's on board for the month of October? All of this is covered as well as reviews of "Fracture" (2007), "Under the Shadow" (2016), and "Outland" (1981). There's also a brief mention of the death of Frank Vincent and a bit more talk about the death of Harry Dean Stanton.

Lee comes back with an intermission episode. In this episode he runs down what's been going on and what to expect from the podcast in the near future. He plugs three podcasts he's been listening to as of late, and then he moves on to give short reviews of two films he recently watched: "Hard Times" (1975) & "Who'll Stop the Rain" (1978). There's also a special guest appearance by Lee Van Teeth!

Featured Music: "Dropout Boogie" by Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band; "Stop and Look (And You Have Found Love)" by The Delfonics; "May The Circle Remain Unbroken" by The 13th Floor Elevators; and "La Caccia" by Goblin.

As usual with these intermission episodes, the original plans fell through for an official episode, so here's a small fix for those who expect an episode every week. This time out friend of the show Kit Power has come through like a superstar to give you all a verbal beat-down of "Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice" (2016), and then he has much more positive things to say about "The LEGO Batman Movie" (2017). Lee is also on this saying some things of less importance.

Fate has conspired against the regular podcasting plans this week so Lee is flying solo for an intermission episode. This week he shouts-out a podcast that mentioned TMBDOS! and goes over some of his recent DVD purchases. Then he looks at a list of upcoming horror films in 2017... and, well, he wasn't drunk enough to deal with it. Enjoy!

The second bit of bonus content for October 2016 contains a grab-bag of sorts. First off Lee provides a review of the short horror film "Lake Nowhere" (released 2016). Then guest reviewers James Murphy and Jack Graham chime in with some horror picks of their own to talk about.

Lee and Paul provide the first bit of bonus content for October 2016 with a casual chat about Lamberto Bava's "Demons" (1985) and "Demons 2" (1986). Although this is a listener request, take note that the usual level of research and prep work we do wasn't done here, as this is an intermission episode. Still, we think it's a pretty fun chat overall.

Because there could not be a regular episode this week, Daniel is filling in with a look at four different films. First up he looks at two sex comedies from the 1970s - "Guess What We Learned in School Today?" (1970) & "Jokes My Folks Never Told Me" (1978). Then he switches gears towards two Oscar contenders from 2015, "Spotlight" & "The Big Short".

"Guess What We Learned in School Today?": http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0065802/combined

Lee is flying solo this week for an intermission episode. He gives a more detailed look at what the upcoming Spaghetti Western series is going to cover, and then he goes on to plug some podcasts he loves and wants people to check out. After that, Lee gives two short reviews of the recent 2016 films "Ghostbusters" & "Suicide Squad".

This week Daniel stepped up and recorded an Intermission episode, as real life got in the way of the possibility of recording a regular episode. In this episode he covers a trio of classic westerns that were recently covered by the excellent Pex Lives podcast in their last two episodes. The films he covers are "The Hanging Tree" (1959); "My Darling Clementine" (1946), and "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance" (1962). He ties the latter film in with his thoughts on the June 12th Orlando Nightclub Shooting.

This week, instead of a regular episode, Lee, along with Daniel, bring a casual Intermission episode where they talk about sequels they think are better than the original films in the series. Also covered: what they've watched in the last little while.

Featured Music: "Let's Twist Again" by Chubby Checker & "Return of the Fly" by The Misfits.

It's just Lee flying solo this time out for the longest Intermission episode the podcast has done so far. Lee goes over some recent purchases and stuff he's viewed as of late, and then digs into his old blog's review archive for reviews of "Monster Brawl" & "The Thing", both from 2011, and then he runs down the plans for the podcast in the spring and summer months. It's still a fairly quick listen, so give it a spin if you fancy killing forty minutes.

Due to some real life issues, Lee could not put together a recording this week, so Daniel was cool enough to take the helm and record an intermission episode. Daniel briefly covers the movies and TV he's been watching in the last little while. Hopefully next week the entire gang will be back together for "M" from 1931.

Lee's flying solo this week, talking about what's coming up on the podcast straight through to the end of the year. There's also some talk about the recent death of Gunnar Hansen, some shout-outs to other podcasts and a bit of a review of the new Western/Horror mash-up "Bone Tomahawk".

Lee is back, flying solo this week. Covered in this episode: the accidental destruction of an episode for the slasher series by Lee, some of Lee's latest film reviews on Letterboxed, and some of Lee's latest DVD purchases. Lee also claims he used an Elgato to record Skype conversations. He actually meant the program Evaer.

Lee is once again flying solo this week for another intermission episode, this time responding to a pair of listener comments, and talking about the buzz around a possible "Big Trouble in Little China" remake, with The Rock in the starring role. He also goes back into his written review archive and spills the beans on what he thought about "Hell Ride" (2008), "The Spirit" (2008),

Lee flies solo again this week, covering the films "Lone Wolf McQuade" (1983), "Flesh Gordon" (1974), "Flesh Gordon 2" (1990), and he also give his thoughts on the half-hour YouTube sensation from this past week, "Kung Fury" (2015). He also responds to a listener comment and gives a preview of what's coming up when we resume the Sex Comedy series later this month.